Tampa Bay Lightning at Chicago Blackhawks

Since the Blackhawks beat the Lightning in the 2015 Stanley Cup Final, the Lightning have won four of the five subsequent regular-season meetings (and the one loss was in overtime).

Tampa Bay began this stretch of eight straight games on the road with a loss to Minnesota Saturday, 5-2. The Lightning have now lost three straight games for the first time this season, getting outscored 14-4 in those games.

Brayden Point set a career high Saturday with his 19th goal of the season. Point tallied 18 goals and 40 points in all of 2016-17 (68 games), compared to 19 goals and 42 points this year (46 games).

Chicago is 1-3-0 so far on this six-game homestand after a loss to the Islanders Saturday, 7-3. It matched the most goals allowed by the Blackhawks and their largest margin of defeat this season.

The Blackhawks sit in last place in their division with just 50 points earned through 46 games. That is their fewest points through the first 46 games of a season since 2007-08 (46 points).

Patrick Kane scored two goals and added an assist against the Islanders Saturday. He has recorded 24 games with three or more points since the beginning of 2015-16, most in the NHL.

CHICAGO -- The Tampa Bay Lightning will try to end a three-game losing streak when they face the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday night at the United Center.

The skid has served as a reality check for Tampa Bay (31-12-3), which remains atop the Eastern Conference with 65 points. Monday's game is the second installment of a grueling eight-game road trip that includes a stop in Nashville next.

"It's really going to test our will and commitment and compete to go into those buildings and have a good game and get wins," defenseman Dan Girardi said to the Tampa Bay Times. "We've got to stop the bleeding."

The same sentiment holds true for Chicago (22-18-3), which has dropped back-to-back games and three of four. The Blackhawks are coming off an ugly 7-3 loss to the New York Islanders that highlighted recent troubling trends such as shaky goaltending, careless penalties and porous defensive play.

More than halfway through the season, the Blackhawks are sliding further out of the playoff picture. They have made the postseason in each of the past nine seasons and know a turnaround is necessary to push the streak to 10.

"Time's ticking here, and we know that the urgency has to be there," defenseman Duncan Keith said to the Chicago Sun-Times. "It's got to come in-game. We can sit here and talk all we want and say things, but it's got to come down to us doing it in the game."

The Blackhawks remain without No. 1 goaltender Corey Crawford, who will miss his 12th game in a row because of an upper-body injury. Crawford's injury has forced the team to turn to Anton Forsberg and Jeff Glass in net.

Glass will start against the Lightning, coach Joel Quenneville announced after Sunday's practice. Glass is 3-2-1 with a 3.34 goals-against average and .905 save percentage and has not faced Tampa Bay in his career.

Tampa Bay could stick with top netminder Andrei Vasilevskiy, who has a 27-9-2 record with a 2.27 GAA and .927 save percentage. Vasilevskiy is 3-0-0 against the Blackhawks with a 2.64 GAA and .917 save percentage.

If Vasilevskiy rests, backup Louis Domingue could earn his second start with the Lightning. He is 1-6-0 with a 4.02 GAA and .870 save percentage in eight games (six starts) with Arizona and Tampa Bay this season. In four career appearances against Chicago, he is 0-3-1 with a 4.58 GAA and an .861 save percentage.

The Blackhawks expect to welcome back veteran center Artem Anisimov, who has not played since Dec. 28 because of an upper-body injury. Anisimov has 13 goals and five assists in 36 games this season and figures to boost Chicago's scoring attack with his net-front presence.

The Lightning will be without left winger Ondrej Palat, who is out indefinitely because of an undisclosed injury that he sustained Saturday against the Minnesota Wild. The 26-year-old has eight goals and 22 assists in 46 games.

Tampa Bay recalled forwards Michael Bournival and Matthew Peca from the AHL's Syracuse Crunch on Sunday to provide additional depth for the road trip. Neither player has appeared in a game for the Lightning this season.